Timbuk2, the San Francisco-based creator of intuitive, stylish and personalized bags to outsmart the city, is hosting a two-day Break Up With Your Bag event from Saturday, December 9 to Sunday, December 10. Stop by the Venice shop for a chance to give back to the local community and gain something special in return. Have some extra food or an unused bag lying around? Timbuk2 encourages their neighbors to donate to someone in need for something they can use in exchange.

Here’s how it will go down:

First, bring in any non-perishable food item OR any gently used bag, no matter the brand, that’s ready to bid adieu.

To enhance this rewarding experience, Timbuk2 will provide tasty snacks and refreshing libations from Fort Point Beer. So mark those calendars and grab a bud, because breaking up feels good when it means giving back.

Today’s common theme is dockless bikeshare — and dockless bikeshare problems — around the world.

A new semi-dockless bikeshare system from Zagster promises to overcome the problem of abandoned bikes by offering a system that can be locked to their docks or any bike rack. Although that could mean bikeshare bikes hogging limited bike parking.

Dockless bikeshare is raising safety concerns in Dallas as abandoned bikes litter a popular tiding trail, even as a fifth bikeshare provider prepares to come to town.

You can donate withjust a few clicks by using PayPal. Or by using theZelle appthat is probably already in the banking app on your smartphone; send your contribution toted @ bikinginla dot com(remove the spaces and format as a standard email address).

Any donation, in any amount, is truly and deeply appreciated to help keep SoCal’s freshest bike news coming your way every day.

As an added bonus, frequent contributor Megan Lynch will provide a free download of her CD Songs the Brothers Warner Taught Me to anyone who makes a contribution during the fund drive. If you’ve already contributed and would like a copy, just email me at the address above and I’ll forward it to her.

And thanks to Chris K and Megan L for their generous donations to help support this site.

A Georgia woman won’t be behind the wheel again for a very long time, after she was sentenced to 25 years behind bars for killing one bike rider and injuring another after plowing into a group of riders while driving distracted with methadone and other drugs in her system, and her two-year old daughter in the car with her; she was still driving despite two previous DUI arrests. Yet another example of keeping a dangerous driver on the road until it’s too late.

Heartbreaking story from Florida, as a woman survived Hurricane Irma in a dramatic rescue, and fell in love with her rescuer, only to die at the hands of a hit-and-run driver as she was riding her bike.

2 comments

You are correct regarding bikeshare racking space hogging if it takes as much a random design bike might. Whether they provide rack only they use, or use shared ability rack, they hog because if designed to park in field it should fold into other identical models or vend and devend flat from & onto others.

To save a few seconds does not justify sprawling racks in cities. City bikes if cloned for scale can seem tall, wide, comfy, and can be that in use, but must transform, like shopping carts duh! Finally the anology needed for weeks lol.

Most personal folding bikes are designed to fit into certain dimensions, total volume nor volume per in bulk are past main goals.

I have yet to see or imagine what a filing system would look like. Verticality or basement even built upon are old news but precede sharables. The rack was shared, now we need unwidely shared but efficient storage for customised bikes and I hope to be embarrassed by failed attempts being old news to you. Scale matters it is all important. Existing racking can cost more per owned bike to sit in then then use of shared model in efficient system. Bikes not just cars must become efficient and presently bikes are inambitous in shared designs, jokes. Easy chump change claimers.